IC 5241
IC 5241
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
379 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 379 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5241 as it looked roughly 379 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 7312Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7434Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 1444Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 5223Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 7367Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 7362Elliptical45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7434Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 1444Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 5223Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 7367Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 7362Elliptical45 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).